Thread: Perentie! How would we go with spare parts?

Originally Posted by 1103.9TDI

I really can't think of a worse use, for is sure to be a classic Landy, than letting a bunch of useless tourists drive it around like it was a hire car. You ought to be ashamed for suggesting it. They would absolutely wreck it, winge about it to their Pootrol/Clooser mates, and laugh at it, being total unable to drive it in the correct manner. What a waste. I don't know how anyone could even consider such a proposition if they were lucky enough to get their hands on a Perentie.

Hate to break it to you, but you can bet your balls that PLENTY of ex-Army 110s are going to end up as tourist hacks, wrecked for parts, used to chase bulls around cattle stations, cut up to be turned into monster trucks, "civilianised", turned into camper vans, etc etc.

Better get used to it. It has happened to every military vehicle ever to be auctioned to the public. How many 2a workshops ended up as farm utes? How many bloodboxes became campers? How many Jeeps became salt flat bashers?

Plenty have come back from the brink before. No reason why these won't get the same treatment in 20 years time.

Originally Posted by 1103.9TDI

I really can't think of a worse use, for is sure to be a classic Landy, than letting a bunch of useless tourists drive it around like it was a hire car. You ought to be ashamed for suggesting it. They would absolutely wreck it, winge about it to their Pootrol/Clooser mates, and laugh at it, being total unable to drive it in the correct manner. What a waste. I don't know how anyone could even consider such a proposition if they were lucky enough to get their hands on a Perentie.

Thank you for your encouraging words, I am sure that there is something in all of us that makes us think like this either about military or vintage vehicles. I don't believe that much good ever came of thinking of tourists as useless. In fact I think that some things like military aircraft are still going today just to provide joy rides to useless tourists. Conservation of vehicles is no different to the conservation of animals. In Africa it is the countries that have been able to extract cash from the useless tourists that want to come and see, photograph or shoot the animals that are able to afford to conserve the animals and their environment.

Ah well, we better start calling tourists clever. Why don't you go and get a few old Landcruisers instead, the clever tourists will have a great deal more confidence driving them around. Maybe your new business venture will be more succesful, you won't have to rescue them as much. Heaps easier to maintain, anyone can do it and does.
Don't mind Landy's becoming pig rooting transport in the NT, or hacks around cattle stations, the same as ANZAC parades, this is where Landy's belong, not catering for some mob of trumphed up clever tourists complaining about the airconditioning mid-winter in Toorak.

Originally Posted by 1103.9TDI

Ah well, we better start calling tourists clever. Why don't you go and get a few old Landcruisers instead, the clever tourists will have a great deal more confidence driving them around. Maybe your new business venture will be more succesful, you won't have to rescue them as much. Heaps easier to maintain, anyone can do it and does.
Don't mind Landy's becoming pig rooting transport in the NT, or hacks around cattle stations, the same as ANZAC parades, this is where Landy's belong, not catering for some mob of trumphed up clever tourists complaining about the airconditioning mid-winter in Toorak.

You've never been a tourist?

Its only a stinky land rover

Never a tourist, an interested visitor maybe who leaves the camp cleaner than when he arrived.